Where do I sign up for the Advanced Driveling Course? I'm all in! My driveling is intermediate at best and could use an upgrade. :)
Notes: I enjoy the 'restack' idea in theory, but the rest is just too much for me. I'm already overwhelmed by my Substack reading list. Keeping up with the daily rants, ramblings, and musings of people I mostly don't know will put me over the edge! Keepin' it simple and slow over here at Casa Aab.
Casa Aab: nice! I don't know: you seem pretty good at drivelling to me😂😂 sorry! I'm surprised you haven't answered the questions at the end of Deadly at Midnight: a couple of them are right up your street, o Reiki person x
When I read your letters back and forth with Rebecca, I always come away feeling like I have just been sitting at your table drinking tea and chatting. Like a little trip away from home. Thank you, Terry! Thank you , too, for the addition to my vocabulary. Turns out that persiflagery exactly suits me...
Please - Jammie Dodgers next time. And maybe a little whisky for the tea? Oh wait... then I might move in to the garden shed and stay for a week or so... Would you mind?
Living alone, laughing is doubly precious. And today is only Wednesday! My laundry has been double splattered-with a dose of disillusion and not yet rinsed with resolve. That is to say my memoir after a pitiless comparison. And just when I thought to hang in out in full view!! Laughing helped
'An obvious one is to abandon planning altogether'? 🫣 You can go off people, you know...! 😉
In other news, I feel that as I have nailed your second bullet point consistently since the late 1970s, I am eligible for a substantial discount on your advanced drivelling course fee. I am already very well practised in taking charge of every conversation while saying little or nothing of consequence, and can provide copious evidence from a number of long-suffering acquaintances and family members to prove it.
Planning abandonment comment: it was meant to be helpful, Rebecca. As for a discount on the advanced drivelling course, you have placed me in the unenviable position that if I agree that you drivel substantially I am basically insulting you. Anyway, if I offer YOU a discount I'll have to offer a discount to all the people on Twitter, Linkedin, FB and even Substack who pollute my inbox with their proclamations of self-aggrandisement. However, I can see that you might be eligible for my special fast-track drivel course, in which acts a s sort of refresher course in the theory of drivelling with a short practical test at the end of it.
The practical test takes its inspiration from the radio programme Just a minute. You will be asked to speak coherently for one minute on a randomly chosen subject you know nothing about (hopefully). You will have to not only sound convincing on the topic, but also interpose at least three 'humble brags' or other forms of self-praise.
You and Ian Messiter would have got on a treat, Terry! Mind you, I think avoiding hesitation, repetition and deviation would likely be easier than your requirement for three humble brags. How humble, I wonder? Do they need to slip under the radar, or are they to be more in a blow-my-own-trumpet kind of style? The former, of course, would be way more difficult than the latter.... 🤔
I'm a little late on reading this. I love the cat talk. You had me laughing! 🤣
They rule our lives and are slowly but surely bankrupting us. Still, they're a good laugh
Where do I sign up for the Advanced Driveling Course? I'm all in! My driveling is intermediate at best and could use an upgrade. :)
Notes: I enjoy the 'restack' idea in theory, but the rest is just too much for me. I'm already overwhelmed by my Substack reading list. Keeping up with the daily rants, ramblings, and musings of people I mostly don't know will put me over the edge! Keepin' it simple and slow over here at Casa Aab.
Another delightful letter all around, Terry!! xo
Casa Aab: nice! I don't know: you seem pretty good at drivelling to me😂😂 sorry! I'm surprised you haven't answered the questions at the end of Deadly at Midnight: a couple of them are right up your street, o Reiki person x
I learn something (unexpected) everyday. It never occurred to me that cats were so... silent but deadly :-| Glad I have no sense of smell!
My sense of smell is not great, but nobody could fail to notice the toxic fumes emanating from minty's rear end
Loved all the animals in this post!
😂
When I read your letters back and forth with Rebecca, I always come away feeling like I have just been sitting at your table drinking tea and chatting. Like a little trip away from home. Thank you, Terry! Thank you , too, for the addition to my vocabulary. Turns out that persiflagery exactly suits me...
I thought my supply of biscuits had inexplicably gone down. Nice comment, thank you! Glad you are a persiflage connoisseur
Please - Jammie Dodgers next time. And maybe a little whisky for the tea? Oh wait... then I might move in to the garden shed and stay for a week or so... Would you mind?
Living alone, laughing is doubly precious. And today is only Wednesday! My laundry has been double splattered-with a dose of disillusion and not yet rinsed with resolve. That is to say my memoir after a pitiless comparison. And just when I thought to hang in out in full view!! Laughing helped
Glad to have been of service, Philippa. Nice metaphors!
'An obvious one is to abandon planning altogether'? 🫣 You can go off people, you know...! 😉
In other news, I feel that as I have nailed your second bullet point consistently since the late 1970s, I am eligible for a substantial discount on your advanced drivelling course fee. I am already very well practised in taking charge of every conversation while saying little or nothing of consequence, and can provide copious evidence from a number of long-suffering acquaintances and family members to prove it.
Planning abandonment comment: it was meant to be helpful, Rebecca. As for a discount on the advanced drivelling course, you have placed me in the unenviable position that if I agree that you drivel substantially I am basically insulting you. Anyway, if I offer YOU a discount I'll have to offer a discount to all the people on Twitter, Linkedin, FB and even Substack who pollute my inbox with their proclamations of self-aggrandisement. However, I can see that you might be eligible for my special fast-track drivel course, in which acts a s sort of refresher course in the theory of drivelling with a short practical test at the end of it.
🤣 'Proclamations of self-aggrandisement'! 😆
Baffled as to how the short practical test might present itself. I'm bracing myself already...
The practical test takes its inspiration from the radio programme Just a minute. You will be asked to speak coherently for one minute on a randomly chosen subject you know nothing about (hopefully). You will have to not only sound convincing on the topic, but also interpose at least three 'humble brags' or other forms of self-praise.
You and Ian Messiter would have got on a treat, Terry! Mind you, I think avoiding hesitation, repetition and deviation would likely be easier than your requirement for three humble brags. How humble, I wonder? Do they need to slip under the radar, or are they to be more in a blow-my-own-trumpet kind of style? The former, of course, would be way more difficult than the latter.... 🤔
Me and Messiter: Indeed.
I can see that I am going to have to compile a list of essential and optional characteristics of the so-called humble brag. <sigh>
Yup. 'Fraid so. Y'know, if the qualification is to count!